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State your topic as a question, such as:
"What is Gullah and what makes it a different language from English?"

Identify keywords and synonyms/variants for those words, for example:
gullah, geechee, sea island creole english, creole, pidgin english, pidgin languages
Title
 		Location
The Cambridge encyclopedia of language REF P29 .C64 1997
The Cambridge encyclopedia of the English language REF PE1072 .C68 2003
The Cambridge grammar of the English language REF PE1106 .H74 2002
Encyclopedia of language and education REF P40.8 .E53 1997
A Comprehensive grammar of the English language REF PE1106 .C65 1985
The Encyclopedia of language and linguistics REF P29 .E48 1994
Encyclopedic dictionary of the sciences of language REF P29 .D813
The dictionary of historical and comparative linguistics REF P140 .T72 2000
A dictionary of linguistics REF P29 .P4
A first dictionary of linguistics and phonetics REF P29 .C7 1980b
International encyclopedia of linguistics REF P29 .I58 2003
Key concepts in language and linguistics REF P29 .T687 1999
Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics REF P29 .B875 1996
A student's dictionary of language and linguistics REF P29 .T69 1997
A dictionary of American English on historical principles REF PE2835 .C7
An historical syntax of the English language REF PE1361 .V5
Twentieth century words REF PE1630 .A98 1999

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Title
 		Location
Linguistics and English linguistics REF Z7001 .A4 1977
Linguistics : a guide to the reference literature REF P121 .D45 2000
Linguistic bibliography for the years REF P121 .L5
Linguistics, psycholinguistics, and the teaching of reading : an annotated bibliography REF Z5818.L3 G66 1980
Reading and the Black English Speaking Child REF Z5818 .L3 H37
Spanish and English of United States Hispanos: a critical, annotated, linguistic bibliographyREF Z2695 .D5 T47
Teaching English as a Second Language: an annotated bibliography REF Z5818 .E5 G64

To find books on your topic, you will probably want to do a keyword search in ALCUIN, the Library's online catalog. ALCUIN supports most of the standard searching techniques, including Boolean Operators (AND, OR), Nesting (using parentheses), and Truncation (using the asterisk *). You might, for example, might want to do a keyword search such as the following:

(creole OR pidgin) and english

For more information on searching ALCUIN, see Searching ALCUIN

To find books available to order on ILL use WorldCat

Title
Academic Search Premier
Modern Language Association Bibliography
Education Full Text
Use for AAVE or other education topics.
Oxford English Dictionary
C.Q. Researcher
Useful for English-only topic.
America: History and Life
Use for historical topics, such as Thomas Jefferson and proto-Nazism.

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